{"id":5561,"date":"2009-04-18T22:14:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-18T21:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slipserver.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/pine-on-stepping-into-kirks-boots\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:13:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:13:45","slug":"pine-on-stepping-into-kirks-boots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/04\/pine-on-stepping-into-kirks-boots\/","title":{"rendered":"Pine On Stepping Into Kirk&#8217;s Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He may play a character that is cocky and self-assured, but <b>Chris Pine<\/b> was anything but confident at first when it came to accepting the role of Kirk.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/\">Couriermail.com.au<\/a>, Pine was initially anxious as to how <i>Star Trek<\/i> fans would view his take on Kirk. &#8220;I&#8217;m only human,&#8221; he said. &#8220;<i>Star Trek<\/i> brings with it a community of fans who are protective and avid and passionate and, you know, sifting through my resume to make sure that I&#8217;m good enough to take on their character.&#8221; <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->It was understandable to Pine though why fans were so protective and passionate. &#8220;Shoot, I&#8217;d understand it, too,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Coming from the romantic comedy world, and having done one semi-action film, I can understand their hesitance to want to accept me into their fold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But he was up to the challenge, likening it to a high-stakes game of poker. &#8220;You either win really big or you lose really badly, but the ride there is that excitement, it just focuses your energy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read more, head to the article located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/couriermail\/story\/0,23739,25346545-7642,00.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He may play a character that is cocky and self-assured, but Chris Pine was anything&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[2418,2419],"class_list":["post-5561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-xi","tag-kirk","tag-pine"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6980,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5561\/revisions\/6980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}